Decatur’s city commission approved re-zoning one acre of the Woodlands Garden, on the corner of Scott Boulevard and Clairemont Avenue, from residential to institutional this week. This takes the garden one step closer to purchasing that acre from the city’s Downtown Development Authority and assimilating the site into the entire public garden.
The garden’s total 7.1 acres, including several hundred tree species, was donated by the Morse family (who had lived there since 1946) in 2002. The DDA bought the one-acre corner lot last year for $695,000 to save it from development and is expected to sell it to the Garden for the same price in December. The lot includes the original two-story house that’ll be used for offices.
The re-zoning also allows the garden to build a driveway connecting the original entrance on Scott with a new entrance on Clairemont.
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